About BotaQi
A French house devoted to the traditional Chinese pharmacopoeia: selecting with exacting standards, handing on with respect.
A house devoted to the Chinese pharmacopoeia
BotaQi was born of a simple conviction: the traditional Chinese pharmacopoeia deserves to be handed on with rigour, clarity and respect. From France, we select the herbs, blends, teas and equipment of this thousand-year-old tradition, for those discovering it as much as for those who know it already.
The name says the intention: Bota, the plant; Qi (气), the breath. Two worlds this house sets out to join: the botany our suppliers weigh and pack to order, and the reading the Chinese tradition offers of it.
Handing on a thousand-year-old knowledge, to the standards of today.
Where our herbs come from
The catalogue comes from specialist suppliers based in France, from whom we request the origin and the certificate of analysis of each lot.
Orders are prepared in France with care: packed at the moment of purchase, sober packaging, dispatched within 24 to 48 working hours.
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Where our herbs come from Specialist suppliers, based in France, from whom we request the origin and the certificates of each lot.
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Full TCM reading Nature, flavours and Phases shown on every listing, for cultural purposes.
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Shipped from France Careful preparation, dispatched within 24 to 48 working hours.
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Packed to order Made up at the moment of purchase, so freshness is kept.
Making the tradition legible
The TCM tradition has a language of its own: thermal natures, flavours, Phases, spheres. Rather than over-simplify it, we have chosen to make it legible. Every product listing sets out these markers (Chinese name and pinyin included) and our Understanding TCM page explains them calmly, for cultural purposes.
The same care applies to search: type a name in French, in pinyin, in 汉字, in English or in Latin. The catalogue answers you in all of those languages.
What every record carries
- The name The French, the hanzi, the pinyin and the Latin binomial.
- The origin The identified supply chain the lot comes from.
- The reading Thermal nature, flavours and Phases.
- The recorded use What the tradition says of it, and nothing else.
The terroirs of the tradition
Twenty-eight provinces, their trading places and the plants the catalogue draws from them.
Browse the terroirsNuwa, our guide
Over BotaQi watches Nuwa, our guide. In a few questions, she reads your “inner season” according to the traditional grid of the Five Phases, then points you towards the products that resonate with it. A cultural and educational reading, never a diagnosis: Nuwa takes up no question of health.
Your reading stays in your browser: no profile is kept on our servers. And if your inner season shifts, you can take it again whenever you like.
